I don’t think the situation between India and Pakistan will be better in the near future: Javed Akhtar
The eminent lyricist and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar said on Friday that he suspected that relations between India and Pakistan would improve in the near future. Referring to Satya and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, Akhtar said that India and Pakistan had lost a similar opportunity after the score. He said there was a great trip due to the partition due to the partition.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a process, due to which the victims and the apartheid exploitation class had the chance to meet. On the occasion of the release of the book “Farewell Karachi” written by the film critic Bhavna Somaya, he said: “It is time of reconciliation. Only our employees in India know what happened to them after 1947-48. People there knew what happened to them. I want them to all sit together … 75 years old, they were older than 90 years old?”
Akhtar (80) said that the governments of the two countries should have gathered refugees from both parties at the start or in the mid -1950s and should have given them a chance to share their memories.
He said: “Then we could know in the real sense what happened and how many people had to face the type of atrocities. It is not a factor. But that did not happen. Anyway, I do not think the situation is better in the near future.
